Category Archives: Autobiographical Writing

My Toon Path

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Gene Stewart

My own stuff usually sprawls between Larson and Thurber, with the occasional Kliban influence.  I’d also have to cite Schultz, to be fair, along with the Nine Old Men at Disney Animation, particularly during THE JUNGLE BOOK epoch, which was … Continue reading →

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A Pachinko Through My Reading and Writing History

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Expanded from comments posted to CarolynMarieReads on  Youtube’s book tube on 25 Oct 2527 — My mother would give me a mmpb in my Easter Basket, and I believe the first one ever was Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. From … Continue reading →

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Brief Discussion of Writing and Life

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Gene Stewart

What has me so stricken is simply that, for my entire childhood I was lied to. In my teen years I realized this and saw through much of it, and everything that’s happened since only confirms the hopeless negatives.  Universal … Continue reading →

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The Other, Then & Now

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Gene Stewart

In the 1950s and 1960s we sat in quiet homes that received, at best, 3 TV channels and radio, and we heard about UFO flaps from word-of-mouth as often as via media. Local newspapers, which we all read, occasionally carried … Continue reading →

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Samizdat’s Door

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Gene Stewart

With the cooperation of social media, TV news, and corporate controls, accusation has been weaponized so it suffices to shoot down information outlets, to throttle voices, and to ruin lives. A threat to make trouble is all it takes. To … Continue reading →

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Mission Statement or Confession of Permanent State Since Birth

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Gene Stewart

My writing wants to knock you down. It is intended to offend, challenge, and change you. It is calculated to thwart your expectations. It is meant not to fit into your sad little categories. It will crawl into your head … Continue reading →

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A Flash of Lightning

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Lightning Pictograph, Neolithic We were taken on the bus from Kindergarten to a state park where trees over a hundred feet high made shadowed places where deer could be seen if we were lucky.  There were paths we were to … Continue reading →

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Childhood Fiction Lessons

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Grew up around guys whose sense of humor included dead-pan tall tales, to test people, to see how far along they could string them.  If the listener didn’t balk, they were laughed at once they left.   It was more … Continue reading →

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A Call For Enhanced Optimism

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Gene Stewart

We all read Flowers For Algernon in school.  Daniel Keyes’s story of a man and his beloved mouse enhanced to genius, then reduced by the same drug to a descent into imbecility, is pathetic, horrific, and emotional.  It makes an … Continue reading →

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Never Learn, Do We?

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Gene Stewart

When I was in 5th grade I was chosen for a summer arts program at the school.  Ages ranged up to high school and kids were drawn from all over the area. These two guys stood out.  Slightly older, they … Continue reading →

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